labour

[…]So I ſet myſelf to enlarge my Cave and Works farther into the Earth; for it was a looſe ſandy Rock, which yielded eaſily to the Labour I beſtowed on it[…]

Being a labour of so great difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.

In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.

the establishment of a new settlement are entitled to five sitios of grazing land, and five labors (equal to 23,025 acres)